Pleasant Traveling Day
We started our day with a relaxing 2 1/2 hours ferry ride from Ocracoke to Cedar Island. I really didn't want to leave. Ocracoke is a delightful place for a long vacation. There are several outstanding restaurants and the choice of accommodations is excellent. The North Carolina Ferries are very reasonable: we paid only $10 for both of us and the car. The crossing from Hatteras to Ocracoke was free! We got to the ferry slips quite early and walked around the area as much as we could. I took a photo merge picture group of the entire harbor, but cannot post it here. After all the predictions for very bad weather, heard 2 days ago, we had a perfect day to be out at sea - actually Pamlico Sound. The sky was as blue as can be with white puffs of clouds making this very photogenic.
We reached shore at about 1 PM. The time really flew by on the boat. I love being on the water. After leaving the ferry landing the road took us past neat houses. Other than fishing, I don't know what the economy is. Perhaps some of these are summer homes. We crossed a huge salt marsh - flat as could be for miles around, all part of Cedar Island National Wildlife Refuge.
We crossed another beautiful bridge to the mainland, leaving the Outer Banks behind. The rest of the drive to Wilmington was pleasant, going through one small town after another with names such as Stacy, Otway, Ocean, Bogue, Piney Green and Verona. Not far from our route, near the Cedar Island NWR are towns named Atlantic and Sealevel.
Our motel in Wilmington, the Quality Inn, is very nice and quite comfortable. They had a better price using a travelers' discount coupon than their main company, Choice Hotels, offered with the 60+ discount they normally offer. Sometimes they do give the best rates and, if no coupon is offered, those special geezer prices are generously discounted.
Dinner was at a chain restaurant, Old Chicago. Jag and I both had salads. I had an outstanding Cobb salad, one of the best I have had in years. This place is famous for the large numbers of beers they serve. For once Jag decided to pass on the beer - he wants to see whether beer affects his blood sugar count. It should be better - I believe there are a lot of carbs in beer.
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